Public space

Urban park

This park offers a neighbourhood green space to the residents who have settled around it. As well as enhancing the surrounding landscape, parks provide a peaceful refuge, encouraging relaxation and a connection with nature; they help improve air quality, provide a habitat for wildlife and help mitigate heat in urban areas. Parks are also centres for recreation and leisure, promoting physical activity, mental well-being and socialising.

Bed of lavender and santolina on red bark mulch, beside the pavement, with residential buildings in the background.
Mass of grasses and perennials in a red bark bed, beneath open-crowned trees, surrounded by lawn.
Ornamental grasses and lavender in the foreground, with a staked young tree and apartment blocks in the background.

The project

With mostly residential surroundings, the aim was for this moribund, bare and little-used space to become a neighbourhood park for residents. The project was therefore developed around creating plant structures that would give it a setting and cohesion. By using shrub species with tree elements, the intention was to define the space and create visual barriers, providing privacy and security. The choice of species with different forms, textures and colours brings this layer to life and makes it more stimulating and diverse. It should be noted that preference was given to species that need little maintenance and little water. A planned clearing makes different activities possible, and by placing trees strategically we ensure the space is bioclimatically comfortable.

Project plan: the proposed green masses over the urban layout of the neighbourhood.
Planting plan: trees and shrubs identified by code on the plan of the park.
Detail plan: the planting line along the park path.

Photographic record

The site before the works: a slope of self-sown vegetation beside the pavement and the apartment blocks.
The site before the works, in the late afternoon, covered in self-sown vegetation next to the roundabout.
The site before the works: a clearing of earth and grass between the buildings.
Young staked trees above a mass of grasses with pink flower heads.
Bed planted with shrubs on bark mulch, a staked tree in the centre and pink-tinged grasses.
Bed of young shrubs on bark mulch, with staked trees and the park in the background.
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